Genealogy Chat

Has anyone come across these problems in Fife or other parts of Scotland. Usually the child records his parent's death, but in a couple of cases in my recent experience, the names of the grandparents are wrong. The record shows Alexander (name of the deceased), not the deceased's father, who was Andrew and similarly the deceased's mother is shown as Mary ( the name of the deceased's wife), not Elizabeth as she was.

In a later generation, another son, records his mother's middle name (we think) instead of his mother's maiden name.

Maybe these were genuine mistakes at what is a difficult time and of course there were no modern methods of checking what the registrar was being asked to report. Nowadays when a witness is reporting a death and needs the full details of earlier generations it is easy to check at the time of the registration. I know, I have done it myself in Edinburgh.

Has anyone experienced this particular problem?

Oh yes & I have even done it myself.I was bemused to see that "somebody" had misspelled my Granny's name on her Death Certificate.Then I looked to see who had reported it ME.I have no recollection of doing this although I did identify her body.
A momentous event like a BMD does scramble the brain.Also you don't know what the Registrar is writing unless you were literate-many were not or maybe not even sure of Grandparents names.
My GGGreat-Grandfather on Registering his sons birth in 1855 gives the wrong date & place of his marriage.I have seen similiar discrepancies on dates of marriage-especially where the children were born less than nine months after the conception.

Jeannette, That's interesting, thanks. Sandy.